International

Monday, November 3, 2014

commercial photographer

By 1872
Muybridge was a capable and successful commercial photographer. In that year
Leland Stanford laid a wager with a friend, said to have been $25,000, that a
galloping horse lifted all four feet from the ground at once. He asked
Muybridge to prove this contention photographically. Using wet plates and under
a dazzling California
sun, he succeeded in getting faint, highly underexposed plates, which were
barely sufficient to settle the wager in Stanford's favor.